Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

Ruth Manorama was 23 when she first began working with underprivileged communities in a small village in the southern Indian ...

The Supreme Court recently ruled that only Dalit Hindus, Sikhs, and Buddhists are eligible for protections accorded to SCs under the Indian Constitution. The judgment overlooks the 'undesirable' ...

*The plight of the Dalit people is the focus of the third edition of V.T. Rajshekar’s 1997 book “Dalit: The Black Untouchables of India.” Traditionally known as the “Untouchables,” Dalits are a ...

UP News: Several members of the Dalit family are reported to have been injured in this attack. Upon learning of the incident, the victim's family filed a complaint at the police station, prompting the ...

Curator Manu Kaur rooted the show, on view at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, in Dalit Guru Ravidas’s vision of a stateless, casteless, and classless society. “My family is Ravidassia, and I wanted ...

He, along with his wife and three children aged 17, 12, and 8 years old, embraced the Catholic faith on Feb. 4 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Kohalpur in Banke district. The family was baptized with ...

NARSINGHBHANPUR, India -- For 21st-century India, eager to modernize and spread its economic wings, the caste system is its ball and chain, holding down the lower castes while the higher ones get rich ...

AAP demands the BJP-led Delhi govt grant Rs 1 crore compensation and a job to families of two murder victims. It alleges the ...

Following my recent blog on Dalit cuisine—where I argued, citing several studies, that it is deeply shaped by the Given the ...

The incident occurred on July 11, 2016 at Samdhiyala village near Una when members of a Dalit family were skinning a dead cow ...